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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (16926)	10/12/2006 10:12:56 AM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Excerpts from Robert Redeker's "In the Face of Islamic Intimidation, What Should the Free World Do?" canada.com The National Post Published: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 Excerpts from Robert Redeker's "In the Face of Islamic Intimidation, What Should the Free World Do?" published in the Sept. 19 edition of Le Figaro: "Islam is trying to impose its values on Europe: opening hours at public pools dedicated exclusively to women, restrictions on caricaturing the religion, dietary demands for Muslim children in school cafeterias, fighting for the right to wear the veil to school, accusations of Islamophobia against open minds." "As was the case with Communism, the West finds itself under ideological surveillance. Islam is presenting itself, in the image of now defunct Communism, as an alternative to the Western world. Just as Communism before it, Islam, to conquer minds, is playing on sensitive chords. It seeks legitimacy in a way that troubles the Western conscience: by being the voice of the planet's poor. Yesterday, the voice of the poor claimed to come from Moscow, today its coming from Mecca!" "Exaltation of violence: war monger, pillager, massacrer of Jews and polygamist – that is how Mohammed reveals himself through the Koran." "The stoning of the devil each year at Mecca is nothing but a superstition. It only gives rise to a hysterical crowd flirting with barbarism... inscribing violence as a sacred duty in the heart of the faithful." 28 Quebec intellectuals writing yesterday in Le Devoir and Le Soleil: "Not only do we exhort the French state to take all the measures necessary to apply the constitution on its own soil, we demand that both our levels of government, Ottawa and Quebec City, denounce with force this 'second Rushdie affair.' " "As for Muslim authorities, we summon them, if they don't want to see the frontal assault predicted, announced, promoted and unleashed by Islamic neo-bolshevism, to dissociate themselves as quickly as possible, with the authors of this 'fatwa,' which they are actively supporting with their silence." "Resisting totalitarianism and terrorism is not simply putting words on petitions like ours, it's warning criminals in power that we are not afraid and that we will never bend to their barbaric intimidation and liberty-killing efforts." French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin reacting to the threats against philosopher Robert Redeker: "We are in a democracy. Each of us has the right to express ourselves freely in a climate of respect toward others, of course. But that is the only limit we should place on this freedom." © The National Post